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06-29-2003, 11:31 AM | #1 |
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6/29/2003: Sun's surface
Turns out this is a shot from a Swedish telescope located in the Canary Islands and... well I can't really rewrite the official information, so: <i>...allows imaging of objects less than 100-km across on the Sun's surface. When pointed toward the Sun's edge, surface objects now begin to block each other, indicating true three-dimensional information. Close inspection of the image reveals much vertical information, including spectacular light-bridges rising nearly 500-km above the floor of sunspots near the top of the image. Also visible in the above false-color image are hundreds of bubbling granules, each about 1000-km across, and small bright regions known as faculas.</i> Or maybe I just took a picture of some bubbling brown sugar and this is a grand fake? |
06-29-2003, 12:31 PM | #2 |
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Dunno. I thought it was maybe a close up shot of an orange ...
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06-29-2003, 03:41 PM | #3 |
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APOD shot from June24. A nice acompanyment to the APOD shot from 2002 November 14. Too bad there isn't a ratio included to understand the scope of the shot but a cool backdrop none the less...
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06-29-2003, 05:46 PM | #4 |
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I saw something like that growing on an old wino.
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06-29-2003, 08:47 PM | #5 |
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At first glance, I thought it was pores.
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06-30-2003, 08:36 PM | #6 | |
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07-01-2003, 01:56 AM | #7 |
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Too cool! Somebody else remembers that! (she says as she hums the theme song) Now I'm going to have to try to find out if there's a DVD release. I know there were videos, but I didn't manage to score any of them. (I have the ViewMaster reels, though. )
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07-07-2003, 05:58 PM | #8 |
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Here's another.
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